Welcome to Southill Lower School

We are a Values-led School

We respect ourselves; We respect others; We respect the environment.

Southill Lower School is a warm, caring and supportive environment, in a special village environment.  

I am delighted to welcome you to the school website which will give a good flavour of what we are doing and what we want to achieve for our children.

I am the Head of School  and my role is to ensure children here are safe, happy and that their education is of the best quality.  The curriculum, which is shared and supported by subject leaders across the federation, is challenging and follows a cohesive and coherent structure from EYFS to Y4. I am an Early Years specialist and very much believe that the strongest start leads to great outcomes in later school life.

We have excellent behaviour in our school underpinned by our values.  We have high expectations and a close attention to each child as you would expect in our closely knit, rural setting.  We know all our families and have a Family Engagement Worker in the federation, Miss Kell, who supports children and families where help is requested. Any families who have children with extra needs have the support of our federation SENCO Miss Bell.  All adults are on site weekly and available for meetings and these can be arranged through the school office with Mrs Lattimore.

We continue to focus on extending the enrichment within the curriculum both in class and through outdoor learning.  We use the environmental garden and pond area, the grassed spaces in the school grounds, the playpark and field and the local woods. This year we will once again visit the local Steam Fayre as a whole school event. We have links with our local church too and go there for Christmas events as well as at other key times during the year and our governor Vice Chair Robin Welsford, is also on hand to lead some of our assemblies. All this combines to ensure that the school day, term and year are superb.

Our governors are extremely involved in our school life and regularly visit to see lessons in action.  The Chair of Governors is Mr Neil Parsons and he can be contacted via email.  He meets regularly with the Executive Head for the federation, Mrs Barlow who is also on site weekly.

Not only is the school excellent but the Friends of Southill Lower School (FoSLS) are always on hand to support and help with events such as our Colour Run and Fayres.  They also contribute to our Discos.  These are held half termly and looked forward to by all.

This school is an excellent example of how a small rural school can both provide warm, enriched days and achieve exceptional academic outcomes. 

Best Wishes,

Mrs Read and the Senior Leadership Team